Whether the pandemic brings further complications this academic year or we return to the more familiar interruptions to teaching and learning (illness, conference travel, student absences), resilient course design offers strategies for maintaining continuity through any disruption.
Special guest Derek Bruff joined us recently for a virtual keynote on agile teaching and learning, resilient course design, and what we have learned from a year of rapid change in higher education.
Through a series of recent conversations, faculty shared about teaching remotely during the pandemic and reflected on what they are taking away from the experience.
Dartmouth recently welcomed special guests and design thinking practitioners Lesley-Ann Noel and Tania Anaissie as part of a "Design Justice" speaker series co-organized by the DCAL and the Design Initiative at Dartmouth.
Through Dartmouth's Thank a Professor or Graduate TA program, students recently submitted more than 180 notes of gratitude expressing how instructors have made a difference in their academic experiences.
Janice McCabe, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Jennifer Jiwon Lee '17 presented their scholarship on the "chilly climate" that exists for women in college classrooms, and shared strategies for addressing the gendered participation gap.
Two resources written and published by Dartmouth students provide helpful guidance on improving academic engagement and advocating for students' wellbeing.
Consider these resources and ideas for teaching in the days following the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
DCAL was pleased to welcome special guest Flower Darby, educator and author, recently for a discussion on the strategies that work to engage students in the remote learning environment. View the recording here.
When COVID-19 moved teaching and learning online last spring, Dartmouth's two-term Senior Design Challenge course was interrupted mid-stream. In a recent DCAL session, instructor Eugene Korsunskiy talks about the creative pivot that kept things rolling.
